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The eatery in Gatley, Manchester went bust in 2022 after three-years of trading and racking up debts of nearly £300K, with a third owed to the tax office.

The country music singer smooched the British actress on the lips while in a field on the Isle Of Mull in Scotland; it is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides.

A central Japanese town wants to limit smartphone use for all its 69,000 residents to two hours a day, in a move that has sparked intense debate on device addiction. From a report: The proposal, believed to be the first of its kind in Japan, is currently being debated by lawmakers after being submitted by Toyoake municipal government in Aichi earlier this week. Toyoake's mayor said the proposal -- which only applies outside of work and study -- would not be strictly enforced, but rather was meant to "encourage" residents to better manage their screen time. There will be no penalties for breaking the rule, which will be passed in October if approved by lawmakers. "The two hour limit... is merely a guideline... to encourage citizens," Toyoake Mayor Masafumi Koki said in a statement. "This does not mean the city will limit its residents' rights or impose duties," he said.

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Exposure to antimony can cause headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, and loss of sleep, while long-term effects can include inflammation of the lungs and stomach ulcers.

Edinburgh-born Karim Khan KC (pictured), 55, has been the subject of global headlines since last year issuing a warrant for the arrest of the Israeli Prime Minister.

A Labour MSP has been charged over allegations he placed a secret camera in the toilets of the Scottish Parliament Building. 

David Brown, 39, was indicted on Wednesday by federal prosecutors on 21 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft.

Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats

FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.…

Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations

OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other teams.…

Our drones are OK, but those other drones?

The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones.  …

A twisted sheriff's deputy was captured smiling for the camera after grabbing the tiny animal from a fellow officer who was worried he would kill it.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the Department of Commerce will begin publishing GDP statistics on the blockchain, touting it as part of President Trump's push to make America a "crypto government." CoinTelegraph reports: Lutnick made the announcement during a White House cabinet meeting on Tuesday, describing the effort as a move to expand blockchain-based data distribution across government agencies. Speaking to US President Donald Trump and other government officials, he said: "The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain, because you are the crypto president, and we are going to put our GDP on the blockchain so people can use it for data and distribution." Lutnick said the initiative will begin with GDP figures and could expand across federal departments after the Commerce Department finishes "ironing out all of the details" for the implementation.

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The rarely seen star lives in a Miami mansion which boasts a 16ft wall to keep out any unwanted eyes with her husband and their three children, twins Lucy and Nicholas, seven, and their daughter Mary, five.

Neil Amin-Smith is often spotted with an open collar by the Chancellor's side - and has been known to 'turn treasury heads like hungry owls' according to London's Standard, who compiled the list.

According to body language expert Judi James, Taylor's quest for a 'perfect love match' only ended when she 'stopped dating her visual twin and tried a contrast' male instead.'

Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry's efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too far.…

Anglian Water have advised people across the East of England to be "water wise" after the region experienced its driest spring and summer period since 1976.

Anglian Water have advised people across the East of England to be "water wise" after the region experienced its driest spring and summer period since 1976.

The supermodel was joined by her daughter, whom she shares with husband Edward Burns at the star-studded event, held at the historic Teatro Goldoni theatre.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers' personal information. In a filing with Maine's attorney general's office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers' personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed "no credit information was accessed," but provided no immediate evidence for its claim. The data breach notice did not specify what specific types of personal data were stolen. In a separate data breach disclosure filed later on Thursday with Texas' attorney general's office, TransUnion confirmed that the stolen personal information includes customers' names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. [...] It's not clear who is behind the breach at TransUnion, or if the hackers made any demands to the company.

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